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Despite Lincoln having generally good broadband provision, some streets still have poor connections, much like the rest of the county (very slow or no broadband speeds indicated in yellow).

A street in Lincoln has one of the slowest broadband speeds in the country, while Lincolnshire has the slowest broadband overall, a report by uSwitch.com has found.

According the the comparison website, Burgley Road has an average broadband speed of just 0.25Mbps, placing it fourth in the top 10 slowest streets in the whole of the UK.

It is beaten to the top spot by a street in another Lincolnshire town, Stamford, where Cromarty Road has speeds of just 0.13Mbps — the slowest in the entire country.

This means it would take those living on the streets just over 25 hours to download a two-hour film, and almost a two hours to download a music album.

In contrast, the fastest street in the UK has broadband speeds of 70.9Mbps.

Lincolnshire is home to three of the slowest streets in the Top 10 in the UK, and the report found the county has the slowest speeds in the entirety of the UK.

uSwitch broadband spokeswoman Julia Stent said: “The massive discrepancy between the fastest and slowest streets in Britain shows what the Government is up against in its fight to drag Britain into the broadband fast-lane.

“Rural parts of Britain in particular are still experiencing broadband speeds so slow that they might as well have no broadband at all.

“It’s concerning that the main aim isn’t providing a decent broadband service to those areas still lacking basic broadband infrastructure and bringing acceptable average speeds to those in rural areas who have been forever languishing in the slow lane.

“However, most of Britain’s slowest streets for broadband are not in particularly remote areas, but in small towns, nearer to exchanges and where we would expect to see higher download speeds across the board.

“Part of the problem is that Government funding for superfast broadband is being dished out to councils, who don’t necessarily have a full view of the big picture.”

Residents in Lincolnshire would want to get help campaign for faster broadband in their area can sign up to the Onlincolnshire project run by Lincolnshire County Council, which aims to push for better broadband provisions in the county.

Probably not related but when we moved into our home 12 years ago we got Virgin (then NTL) TV, Internet and Phone. After a few months of use we found the current dial up rarely worked and the Phone crackly. We first had engineers who "patched" it up. Then a year or so later we were told if we upgraded to broadband it would be much improved. But after going on to broadband (think it was about 4mb) it was barely 10% download speeds and the phone got so bad it was inaudible. Rather than mess around we actually wrote a letter of complaint to their head office who 24 hours later sent an area manager in his suit and tie and BMW car around, took one look and explained the problem that effected everyone...... in 1996 or thereabouts the government gave the contract to install fiber optic cable to a company called Diamond Cable who apparently, decided to lay it as cheap and quickly as possible, so used temporary cables from junctions to homes. These cables were only supposed to last 2-3 years as they were not high quality and prone to degredation quickly resulting in loss of signal stength effecting phone sound quality, broadband speeds and set-top boxes crashing. He stated that as my cable was a good 5 or more years old it is more than twice past its sell by date and realistically should have been upgraded years ago but I would never had got it done if I hadn't complained in writing in the way I had done. He said that when NTL bought the network once it was laid and they were aware of the fact that the cable network was temporary on the understanding all the hard work had been done and they would just need to upgrade the cables to a better, more reliable one for each new customer who signed up to their company. But he said that NTL decided to implement a policy that engineers do not lay any new cable but make use of the temporary one instead when installing a new customer, and must do anything and everything to patch up faulty cables and boost signals when they broke down rather than lay new cable, as it was cheaper to pay a single engineer for a couple of hours, than it was to have a 3 man cable-pull (means replace) team digging up and relaying cable in a street. And so they only ever replace the cables with newer ones when the customers connection is so bad or completely dead that it is unable to do anything to resolve it without laying new cable. And with that he had a cable team come an hour later, dig up my garden and driveway, and a small part of the street outside, lay a brand new cable to my house, and after it was done my phone was crystal clear, my tv was less fuzzy and didn't crash half as much, and my 4mb broadband went from about 0.4mb to 3mb! And now..... I have 50Mb and my actual speed is still up around 40Mb which I am more than happy with.

My guess is that the likes of Burghley Road or Stamford that are experiencing incredibly poor broadband are probably in a similar situation whereby they need a completely new cable system put in as they are probably still using 15+ year old cables designed to only last 2 or 3 years, and the reason it hasn't been done is down to cost-saving from the likes of Virgin who think that until someone (maybe like USwitch) kicks off in a big way, they can get away from paying out for an expensive job and just keep patching it up cheaply, knowing full well that they have been on borrowed time of how long it will last, and how much patience its customers have over the past decade. I bet if this report hits the mainstream media, there will VM trucks laying new cable and boasting of uber-fast broadband speeds in the areas most neglected within weeks with a "we heard, and we delivered!" marketing campaign to follow it to show it as the peoples champion for providing unhappy customers with much imrpoved services! ;-D